RE: I D HesserI am not a Hesser descendant but my husband, children, and grandchildren are. I recently acquired my mother-in-laws genealogy notes and materials on the Hesser family and have been organizing and consolidating this information. Her descent is through Andrew Hesser and Eleanor Shaw and their son Andrew Hesser m. Emeline McCune and their daughter Mary Louisa Hesser m. Oscar Simon Martin. I have been using the documented research she had to connect the Hesser families together on F-A-G so that future researchers will have some information to begin their own search using birth and death locations, spousal, parent-child,and sibling relationships, F-A-G is one of the few sites left where others can gather family data without having to pay money to do so.

Dawson Cemetery questionI was wondering if you knew why there were so many "unknown" markers in the Dawson Cemetery in Delta County, Texas. It was unusual to find so many in a concentrated area. I haven't been able to find anything about it.

Some of our Dawson family is there and we were wondering what happened.

Slaton infoThanks very much for sharing Eva Slaton with me. I have posted some of this, with you as referenced source, but I do not follow down the SMITH line as that is off of my focus. I could not access the letters you referred to, but thanks very much.